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The History Of the most Noble Order of the Garter : Wherein is set forth An Account of the Town Castle, Chapel, and College of Windsor; with their several Officers ; The Foundation of the Order by King Edward III. ; With the Statutes, and Annals at large, as they have been altered and amended ; An Account of the Habits, Ensigns and Officers of the Order ... To which is prefix'd, A Discourse of Knighthood in General, and the several Orders extant in Europe
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“61^ fhould compofe a Boole, wherein fhould be orderlyTef^ tranferibed the Form and Manner of all the Solemnities,tgiftj, Ceremonies, and Proceffions, at the Celebration of theOrder, as alfo of taking down and offering the defund:hVj Knights Atchievments, that the Knights-CompanionsSi might have free Recourfe to it 5 but iuch Book never

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For the Safety and Prefervation of the Annals, theKnights Commiffioners determin’d the 2 ad of May, An.Jac. R. ao. That a fecure and convenient Place withinthe Caftle of Windfor fhould be appointed, in which allAds concerning the Order fhould be repofed, and towhich every Knight-Companion at all times might haveAccefs. And upon the Remove or Deceafe ot the Re-gifter of the Order, the Book containing the Accountof all fuch Tranfadions, fhould be committed to one-pf the Knights of the Order.

The fecond of thefe Books is called the Blue Book,,focall’d being bound in Blue Velvet 5 it begins withthe firft Year of Queen Mary, and ends at the 18th ofKing Jac. I.

The third being bound in Red Velvet, is denomi-aated the Red Book, it commences where the BlueBook leaves off, and treats of the like Ads and Entries,and is carry’d down to 14 Car. I. having firft given afull Account of the Inftallation of the Prince, after-wards King Cha. II. And as to great part of this Workit was perform’d by the elegant and judicious Dr.MathewWren , Bifhop of Ely , and Regifter of the Order, whofeexcellent Patern his Brother and Succeflor Dr. ChriftopherWren hath copy’d in its following Trad. ThisBifhop compiled a MS. A. D. 1631. wherein, byway of Comment upon King Henry VIII’s Statutes, hehath cpmpendioufiy fhewn what Alteration there hathpalled in the Law of the Garter, a Work perform’dwith great Judgment, and exceedingly ufeful to thpCurious.

The fourth andlaft Book is Liber Carolinus , and com-mences K540. wherein the Annals are brought down tothe Beginning of 1670. by Ryves, then Regifter. Andin a Chapter conven’d at Windjor the 1 ( 5 th of April , Annof 3 Car. II. it was decreed, That there fhould be T wo

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